Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon's growing reliance on SpaceX

Article

• A Starlink outage disrupted US military drone testing operations
• Highlights Pentagon’s deepening dependency on SpaceX’s commercial satellite network
• Starshield (military variant) was reportedly unaffected; consumer Starlink was used instead

Discussion

• Commenters noted tests (not ops) were affected, and Starshield wasn’t down — may be overblown
• Sharp criticism: ‘Pentagon at the whim of a man-child billionaire’ summarizes the concern

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